Frizzleburg, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Frizzleburg, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Frizzleburg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Frizzleburg — the short answer
Frizzleburg, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 194 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~194
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6a is Frizzleburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Frizzleburg's 194-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Frizzleburg
Each reading below is measured for Frizzleburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFrizzleburg runs about 194 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredFrizzleburg sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Frizzleburg is in
Frizzleburg sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Frizzleburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lawrence County.
What Grows in Frizzleburg
Every plant below cleared Frizzleburg's own zone 6a and its 194-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Frizzleburg?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Frizzleburg
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Frizzleburg, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Frizzleburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Frizzleburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PAUL SEIGEL EXCAVATING INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.2 mi
- MILLER ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- ZAMBELLI FIREWORKS MFGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- LANE METAL PROD DIVUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CD AMBROSIA TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- NEW CASTLE SCH OF TRADESBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- IB DIESELUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- LA 1201 Lawrence County Observation WellNitrate · 2.1 mi
- ZAMBELLI FIREWORKS MFG COBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- C & C VANPORT SAND & GRAVEL PLT 3Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- LA 611Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- NESBIT PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Frizzleburg's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Frizzleburg.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Frizzleburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Frizzleburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Frizzleburg, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 61 sites within ~10 miles of Frizzleburg. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Frizzleburg
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Frizzleburg average
Your land is one point inside Frizzleburg
Everything above resolves to Frizzleburg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Frizzleburg Average
Frizzleburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Frizzleburg
- ●One soil character for all of Frizzleburg
- ●Frost dates read at Frizzleburg's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Frizzleburg's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Frizzleburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Frizzleburg, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Frizzleburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around Frizzleburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Frizzleburg average
How we know this about Frizzleburg
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Frizzleburg’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Frizzleburg
When does frost risk typically end in Frizzleburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Frizzleburg typically lands around Apr 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 11.
When is the first frost in Frizzleburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Frizzleburg typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 194 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Frizzleburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Frizzleburg sees about 194 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 17, about 159 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Frizzleburg?
The federal record around Frizzleburg is a meaningful one — 639 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (300), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Frizzleburg?
From about Oct 1 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Frizzleburg's scale — its 6a band and its 194-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Frizzleburg's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Frizzleburg’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Frizzleburg's own scale — its own ~194-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,807 acres it covers and 639 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Frizzleburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Frizzleburg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 31 and the ~194-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 639 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Frizzleburg, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Frizzleburg's boundary and the 1,807 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~194-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Frizzleburg's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Frizzleburglydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Frizzleburg's 1,807 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lawrence County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lawrence County
- The growing challenges every Pennsylvania grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Pennsylvania
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lawrence County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Frizzleburg's 1,807 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Frizzleburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,807 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Frizzleburg-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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